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Saturday, November 12, 2022

In other words, steganographic cryptography

  • adventitious, adjective. Happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature.
  • alderelde, noun. Extreme old age; a life of many years.
  • aseity, noun. Existence originating from and having no source other than itself.
  • banal, adjective. Devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite.
  • corposant, noun. Another name for Saint Elmo’s fire, a ball of fire sometimes seen about a ship during a storm.
  • cryptography, noun. The art of writing or deciphering messages in code; the system used in a code or cipher.
  • excrescence, noun. An unattractive or superfluous addition or feature; any disfiguring addition.
  • ignis fatuus, noun. A flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter; also something deluding or misleading (Latin, foolish fire).
  • inexorably, adverb. In a way that is unavoidable, impossible to stop or prevent.
  • jingoistic, adjective. Militantly nationalistic or chauvinistic; characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive foreign policy.
  • kitsch, adjective. Considered to be in poor taste but appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.
  • mired, adjective. Trapped in mud, muck, or slime; entangled or stuck (e.g. in trouble or difficulty).
  • phishing, noun. A type of email attack in which the attacker tries to find the sensitive information of users in a fraud manner through electronic communication by intending to be from a related trusted organization.
  • seriatem, adverb. One after another; in a series.
  • sinistrous, adjective. (archaic) wrong, disastrous, unlucky, perverse; on the left side, inclined to the left, sinistral.
  • steganography, noun. The practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message; (computing) the concealment of a message or data within an image, audio, or video file.
  • vishing, noun. A type of cyber attack in which voice communication is used for stealing confidential data from a group of people (the attacker tricks the target to give sensitive information through a voice call pretending to be an employee from a related and trusted firm). 

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